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Asphaltene Components as Organic Electronic Materials

a technology of organic electronic materials and components, applied in the field of organic electronic materials and devices, can solve the problems of reducing the cost-effectiveness associated with the process, and achieve the effects of good intermolecular electronic overlap, good film-forming properties, and high electron affinity

Inactive Publication Date: 2013-02-21
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN & RIGHT OF CANADA REPRESENTED BY THE MIN OF NATURAL RESOURCES +1
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The patent is about a photovoltaic cell that uses conductive layers made of metal or transparent conductive materials to capture and convert sunlight into electricity. The cell may also have one or more transparent substrates for protection and easy handling. Current collector layers made of metal strips or grids are present to collect the electric current. The cell may be constructed with two substrates and other layers between them. A barrier layer made of silicon dioxide or PEDOT:PSS may be added to separate the substrate from the other layers of the cell. The cell has an electrode for each conductive layer and conductive elements are attached to each electrode and to a load to complete a circuit. The technical effects of the patent are the development of a photovoltaic cell that is efficient in converting sunlight into electricity.

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Perhaps more significantly, the process also requires the use of fresh water and leaves behind large, but temporary, tailings ponds.
Upgrading this bitumen requires the treatment / removal of asphaltenes, which seriously reduces the cost-effectiveness associated with the process.
This is complicated by the fact that asphaltene structure and composition differ depending upon their source (Mansoori G A.

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Example Model of Asphaltene Components

[0033]Calculations were performed on an asphaltene model shown in Scheme 1 (ABC, C125H132N2O3S3). This molecular formula is derived from experimental 1H and 13C NMR, and from mass spectroscopy measurements (Takonahashi T, Sato S, Tanaka R. (2004) Petr. Sci. Tech. 22, 901-914). Previous modeling work has been done under the assumption that the components aggregate around an open, central structure of A (Stoyanov S R, Gusarov S, Kovalenko A. (2008) Mol. Sim. 34, 953-960). This central structure should have a folded form in which the two heterocyclic polyaromatic moieties of A can maximize their stability by π-stacking. Optimization calculations using PBE / 6-31+G(d,p) with DCPs on an open and folded form confirmed this, predicting that the folded form of the aggregate (see FIG. 1) is more stable than the open form by about 9 kcal / mol. NMR work lends support for a closed form for asphaltenes similar to that in FIG. 1.

[0034]It is not straightforward t...

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Experimental Asphaltene Isolation Procedure (Dettman H D, Inman A, Salmon S, Scott K., Fuhr, B. (2005) Energy Fuels 19, 1399-1404.)

[0036]Asphaltenes were precipitated from the D1160 vacuum residues [boiling point (bp)+524° C.] of global crude oils with pentane, using a single treatment of the procedure outlined in Peramanu et. al (Peramanu S, Pruden B P, Rahimi P. (1999) Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 38, 3121-3130.). This method includes adding 40-volumes of pentane, sonicating in a bath sonicator for 45 min, leaving the mixture to rest overnight at room temperature, then sonicating for an additional 30 min before filtering, and washing with pentane until the eluent is colorless. Trace pentane was removed from the asphaltenes precipitate by heating the asphaltenes to 45° C. in a vacuum oven overnight.

[0037]Gel permeation chromatography was run on the asphaltenes using Bio-beads™ S-X1 purchased from Bio-Rad. These beads are reported to have a molecular weight separation range from 600 to 14,0...

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Asphaltene Experimental Conductance Measurements

[0039]Three samples of C5 native asphaltene were studied for their electrical conductive properties—Sample 1 consisted of native asphaltene, without component separation; Sample 2 consisted of the early asphaltene fraction (A & B), as acquired from the procedure outlined above; and Sample 3 consisted of the later eluent asphaltenes. The procedure of measuring conductance can be described as thus:

[0040]Asphaltene was dissolved in 2 mL of toluene; the sample spin-coated (1000 rpm for 65 seconds) on a lithography-patterned inter-digitated electrode (IDE, 10 μm separation and 600 digits) on p-Si substrate with 300 nm thermal oxide as an insulating layer. The height of the IDE was 105 nm, constituted by 5 nm Cr (adhesion layer) and 100 nm Au. The sample was dried under vacuum (2×10−6 torr) for 24 hours, with all experimental data collected under vacuum, and in darkness.

[0041]In order that the resistivity of the sample can be determined, the...

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Abstract

Asphaltene components are useful as organic electronic materials, especially in the form of thin films, in organic electronic devices, such as optoelectronic devices, for example, photodiodes (e.g., photovoltaic cells), phototransistors, photomultipliers, integrated optical circuits, photoresistors, and the like.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application claims the benefit of United States Provisional Patent Application U.S. Ser. No. 61 / 282,996 filed May 5, 2010, the entire contents of which is herein incorporated by reference.FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0002]This invention relates to organic electronic materials and devices comprising such materials. In particular, this invention relates to the use of asphaltene components as organic electronic materials.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0003]Much of the world's petroleum resources are in the form of bitumen (heavy and light oil fractions) mixed with sands and clays. These deposits are generally referred to as oil sands. Extraction of the bitumen from this source requires a larger input of energy relative to that required for conventional crude oil. Perhaps more significantly, the process also requires the use of fresh water and leaves behind large, but temporary, tailings ponds. The environmental impact of mining operations in, fo...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): H01L51/46H01L51/54
CPCB82Y10/00C08L95/00Y02E10/549H01L51/0056H01L51/0045H10K85/20H10K85/624
Inventor DILABIO, GINO A.MACKIE, IAINDETTMAN, HEATHER DIANE
Owner HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN & RIGHT OF CANADA REPRESENTED BY THE MIN OF NATURAL RESOURCES
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